Beskrivning : With the failed tape recorder, the spacecraft could only send data back to Earth in real time, so the only areas it could study where those in range of Soviet tracking stations, i.e. over Soviet territory. Communications were lost on 3 June 1958. The satellite reentered the Earth`s atmosphere and burned up on 6 April 1960 after almost 2 years in orbit.

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